How common is the surname Kessler?

29,064 people in the United States had the surname Kessler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 10,623 Americans. It ranked 1,216th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kessler?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kessler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kessler getting more or less common?

More common. 28,869 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 29,064 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Kessler

A German occupational surname, carried by 29,064 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K246

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kessler is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Kessler, Keßler (“kettler, kettle-smith, tinker”). See also Kessel (“kettle”).

Kessler is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 29,064 people named Kessler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 10,623 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 28,869.

#1,216

rank among US surnames

29,064

people in 2010

9.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #1,112)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,207	Connor	29,346	10,521
#1,208	Pate	29,327	10,528
#1,209	Zepeda	29,252	10,555
#1,210	Hatcher	29,235	10,561
#1,211	Escobedo	29,185	10,579
#1,212	Arredondo	29,173	10,583
#1,213	Hyde	29,094	10,612

Who is named Kessler

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Kessler identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Keslar

Surnames that sound like Kessler

Kessler has the Soundex code K246, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K246.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kessler come from?: Borrowed from German Kessler, Keßler (“kettler, kettle-smith, tinker”). See also Kessel (“kettle”).
How common is the surname Kessler?: 29,064 people in the United States had the surname Kessler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 10,623 Americans. It ranked 1,216th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kessler?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kessler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Kessler?: Kessler is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Kessler getting more or less common?: More common. 28,869 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 29,064 in 2010, up 0.7%.
What are other spellings of Kessler?: Keslar.